As part of their Outside Panem series, the wonderful admins at HungerGamesDWTC.net decided to review James Dashner’s The Kill Order. See Theresa (great friend of this site!)’s comments below:

Time once again to sneak under the District 12 border fence and explore more worlds Outside Panem. This week we are heading back to The Maze Runner Series and taking a look at the recently released prequel to the trilogy, The Kill Order by James Dashner.

Here’s a tidbit from our review:

What we loved:  ANSWERS!  Finally it is revealed how the world descended into chaos.  What happened when the sun flares scorched the Earth and how ‘The Flare’ took over and created in essence a world full of monsters (ie Cranks).  But a mystery still looms, and in true Dashner style we don’t receive quite all the clues to solve it. Keep reading!